Now a new trailer has been released for his directorial effort "Child of God," adapted from the novel by Cormac McCarthy. The film stars Scott Haze as a disaffected Tennessee outcast whose life devolves into violence and depravity.

From the looks of the trailer — which begins with the local sheriff (Tim Blake Nelson) asking Haze's character, "What sort of meanness have you got laid out for next?" — the film is as bleak and violent as one might expect from a film based on a McCarthy book.

"Child of God" premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August, after which Variety film critic Justin Chang wrote, "Franco has emerged with an extremely faithful, suitably raw but still relatively hemmed-in adaptation that compares favorably with his earlier films, yet falls short of achieving a truly galvanizing portrait of social and sexual deviance."

The film does not yet have a U.S. distributor. Watch the new trailer for "Child of God" below.